Search for all construction project leads in your target area
Discover the latest construction projects in any sector or region.
For Hire Services that want an empty yard year round
Plant hire, tool hire, and hire services across the UK use Barbour ABI’s subcontractor and construction project data to get their equipment out of their yard, and on site every year.
Over 3,000 companies win more business with Barbour ABI
Construction project leads for Hire Services
Hire services subscribe to the Barbour ABI Construction Project Leads Platform to:
- Get notified when groundworkers are awarded
- View industry relationships and work history
- Access ideal up and coming projects
- See where subcontractors and groundworkers are based and where their projects are actually happening
The platform gives you access to the planning stages that matter most to you, like tender, contract award, and subcontract awards, so you can prospect out when it’s time to hire out.
How we support you
1-2-1 Support
Our leading team of experts are with you from day one. Get catered support throughout your subscription.
Confirmed On Site
Get a clear view projects confirmed on site so you can visit and start making connections
Contact Information
Get access to key contacts on your ideal projects so you can start having the right conversations.
New Work
Win new business that goes beyond beyond existing referrals and recommendations.
Barbour ABI Products for Hire Services
Construction Project Leads
Construction project leads you can actually use to win more work, make new connections, and understand industry relationships. Get access to GDPR compliant contacts and start having the right conversations at the right time.
Market Research Reports
Our team of UK researchers create detailed reports providing market reports for Hire Services such as Plant Hire, Generator Hire, and Equipment Hire sectors. View our library of off-the-shelf reports today.
When the groundwork starts, we'll let you know
Let’s say you’re a plant hire company.
You know a massive infrastructure project has just gone into tender with groundwork scheduled to start in three months. The Project Leads Platform will send you a notification when a groundwork subcontractor or civil engineer has been added to the project, and you can start reaching out before your competitors do.
Get direct contact information for key decision makers like consultants, contractors, architects, and more. We make lead generating for Hire Services easy, convenient, and timely.
Confirmed on site, confirmed opportunity
The only thing better than getting equipment out of your yard is getting out of there yourself to visit clients and sign new contracts.
Many of our Hire Services clients use our information to understand when projects are confirmed on site, to go and meet key decision makers and customers in-person.
Build your own League Tables
The custom League Table feature on the Project Leads Platform lets you filter through roles, sectors, regions, and time periods so you can see the top 50, 100, or 250+ results.
Get instant access to the companies working within these parameters, their project count, and project value.
After you build your ideal league table, hit favourite so you can monitor and reach out when the time is right.
Try for free
Build your pipeline with 10 free leads from the market-leading construction intelligence platform
See how the industry succeeds with Barbour ABI
Poly-Pac has seen turnover treble since working with Barbour ABI
Poly-Pac, a polycarbonate systems supplier, partnered with Barbour ABI to expand in the UK by targeting key decision-makers.
Using the platform, they identified opportunities, engaged with architects and contractors, and delivered CPD presentations.
In two years, their turnover tripled, their specification network grew tenfold, and they presented CPDs to over 300 professionals.
Barbour ABI’s support and market insights have been crucial to their success, helping them streamline outreach and build industry relationships. Poly-Pac credits the partnership for aligning with their growth goals and professional standards.
How British Polythene Ltd built a winning strategy with Barbour ABI
British Polythene Limited, a Berry Global company, specializes in high-performance films and laminates.
Their biggest challenge as a UK manufacturer is tracking product specifications throughout construction. For 13 years, Barbour ABI has provided the solution, helping them monitor specifications from tender to contract and target new projects.
Using Barbour ABI’s data, they’ve enhanced marketing efforts, built stronger relationships with contractors, and improved specification success rates.
After trialling a competitor’s platform, they found outdated data, poor service, and hidden contract clauses. They continue to rely on Barbour ABI’s superior accuracy, fast updates, and collaborative support.
Larsen Building Products Wins More Contracts with Barbour ABI
Larsen Building Products, a supplier of cementitious mortars and tiling products, has used Barbour ABI for 15 years to track projects early and secure key contracts. Previously, they relied on manual searches and cold calls to find leads.
Now, the platform helps them identify relevant projects, connect with decision-makers, and track opportunities through their CRM.
Real-time notifications keep them ahead of competitors, ensuring they reach the right people at the right time. Larsen credits Barbour ABI for streamlining their process, enhancing efficiency, and giving them a strategic edge in winning new business.
Hanson found huge opportunities they didn’t know existed
Barbour ABI is the entity that provides Hanson with the essential information they need and is at the heart of everything they do.
Prior to using Barbour ABI, the challenges Hanson faced were doing business in a non-digital world and although postal information was useful, it wasn’t as easy to filter through and be highly targeted.
The Barbour ABI platform has revolutionised this, as Hanson are now able to focus on the right opportunities efficiently using the granular search functionality.
Simplify your project sourcing with AI-powered search
The first of it’s kind in construction lead generation – Just Ask, our AI-powered search. Just Ask is an intuitive, seamless tool on our platform that helps you get to projects you need quicker than ever before.
Need to know the top projects happening in the North West in the residential sector? Just Ask. Want to refine after your initial search? Just Ask does that, too.
This is the fastest way you can see leads suited to your business in real time.
Your leads, your way
Source the hottest work in your target areas and manage those leads all in one place.
Our platform allows teams to tag, favourite, share, and take notes on leads so you can see your pipeline every time you log on.
Teams can also schedule calls and check ups via our calendar feature that links straight to your email software.
Reach the right contacts
Our UK based research team make over one million calls every year to ensure we can get the right project and company data for you.
Get access to key decision makers contact information on every project, and dig deeper by selecting their company profile and viewing even more contacts from the business.
Roles change hands quickly so our team checks and updates emails and phone numbers regularly. Ready to put our data to the test?
Construction sales leads made easy
Sourcing and tracking all in one place
With Barbour ABI, Hire Services can find new work and visualise competitor activity on one easy to use platform.
From finding new prospects, viewing planning applications sourced from local authorities, discovering ideal projects, exporting data, and more our Construction Project Leads Platform saves your team time and hassle.
Your team can work together on the platform by sharing, tagging, and adding notes to projects so you can always have the most up to date pipeline under one log-in.
The traditional method
Hire Services traditionally rely on word-of-mouth, repeat work, work that walks in the door, sourcing on LinkedIn and viewing applications on local council sites.
This method will only get your business so far and with constant changes in the industry, you could be too late to the game.
What if we said you could do what works for you with the best data on the market to streamline your efforts and get the latest updates before anywhere else? Use our construction project data to fact check project details to see real time building phases. Favourite the type of projects you want to see and get updates on those projects on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis.
Ditch the laborious methods for the smartest sourcing in the industry.
“The quality of service from Barbour ABI stretches from executive level market analysis through to their Research Team helping us source granular project information.
Barbour ABI has helped us to make more informed decisions and improve our go-to-market plans.“
“I have used Barbour ABI leads for 9+ years and find this service to be a valuable tool. Our account manager is always on the end of the phone should we need support.
We have just renewed for another year, I would highly recommend them.”
FAQs
Yes!
We’re the only provider on the market that allows you to build your package with individual counties if you prefer rather than just whole regions.
We track projects from pre-planning all the way to project completion.
You choose which planning data you want included in your package and leave out the bits you don’t need.
Yes, we do. We have the UK’s largest in-house research team made up on construction industry experts. They track and report on our projects constantly to provide you with the most up-to-date view of live projects.
Once we get the confirmation that projects are on site we add it to the platform. If you have that project included in your saved searches, you’ll get a notification as soon as it’s updated.
Our platform gives you the ability to track people you usually work with to see their upcoming projects. Once you see their pipeline you can start reaching out at the right time to discuss new contracts.
Absolutely. Our data can be accessed in your own CRM via our API and developer license.
We have an in-house development team, as well as several partners who specialise in manipulating our data for all CRM systems including Microsoft Dynamix, Salesforce, Pipedrive and Hubspot.
